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The University Mnsical Society Goldovsky Grand Opera Theater The University Mnsical Society of The University of Michigan Presents The Goldovsky Grand Opera Theater (Goldovsky Opera Institute, Incorporated) BORIS GOLDOVSKY, Artistic Director in CARMEN An Opera in Four Acts Music By GEORGES BIZET Libretto by HENRI MEILHAC and LunOVIC HALEVY Based on the novel by PROSPER MERIMEE English version by BORIS GOLDOVSKY and SARAH CALDWELL Produced and staged by BORIS GOLDOVSKY Conducted by BORIS GOLDOVSKY Scenery designed by ARISTIDES GAZETAS Costumes designed by LEo VAN WITSEN SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1969, AT 8:00 HILL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Eigh th Concert Ninetieth Annual Choral Union Series Complete Programs 3643 CAST OF CHARACTERS Morales, corporal . JOHN MERRICK Micaela, young girl adopted by Don J os6's mother JOAN MORCOM Don Jose, corporal of the guard ALLEN CATHCART Zuniga, captain EDWIN CLAUSS Carmen, gypsy girl NANCY WILLIAMS Frasquita, her companion FREDREIKA WISEHART Mercedes, her companion BARBARA SMITH-DAVIS Escamillo, toreador J . B . DAVIS Remendado, smuggler ENZO CITARELLI Dancairo, smuggler LUCIEN OLIVIER Gypsy dancers NANCY FALLOON, ROSALIE KING, SARI MEXIA Lillas Pastia, innkeeper BENJAMIN MATTHEWS Guide JAN IiILFREICH Cigarette girls, Gypsies, Soldiers, Cavaliers and Urchins Members of the Goldovsky Opera Theater The action takes place in and around Seville, Spain, about 1820. ACT I -A square in Seville ACT II -The tavern of Lilias Pastia ACT III-A mountain pass ACT IV -A square in Seville There will be a 3-minute intermission between Acts I and II, and Acts III and IV ; and a IS-minute intermission between Acts II and III. SYNOPSIS ACT I It is noon time on a square in nineteenth century Seville. Several dragoons, guarding the tobacco factory, lounge outside their post. Micaela, a country girl sent by Jose's mother, enters looking for him. She manages to out-manoeuver the attentions of the soldiers who try to flirt with her and leaves, promising to return later. Preceded by a squad of urchins, the relief guard marches in, among them Captain Zuniga and Corporal Jose. Soon, the cigarette girls, summoned by the factory bell, start reassembling after their lunch break. Carmen, a much admired gypsy beauty, appears last. Piqued by the indifference of Don Jose, she teases him, throws a flower in his face, and then runs into the factory along with her companions. Micaela returns, and Jose is greatly moved by the girl's charm and by his mother's message of affection. After Micaela leaves, there is a sudden uproar in the cigarette factory and the girls pour out crying that Carmen has wounded a fellow-worker. Brought before Zuniga, the gypsy defies him brazenly and while he is busy writing out the order for her arrest, she promises Jose a rendezvous and induces him to help her escape. Amid the laughter of onlookers, Carmen breaks away from the soldiers, leaving Don Jose to be arrested in her stead. ACT II Two months later, in Lilias Pastia's tavern, Carmen and her friends Frasquita and Mercedes entertain Zuniga and other officers. Soon, the toreador Escamillo arrives with a group of followers. He returns the greetings of the soldiers by treating them to a round of drinks and singing a rousing toast. Escamillo is greatly impressed by Carmen, but it is closing time and all the guests must leave the tavern. The gypsy girls remain behind and are urged by Remendado and Dancairo to join them on a smuggling expedition. Carmen refuses saying that she is expecting a visit from Don Jose who has just been released from prison. When Jose arrives, Carmen greets him warmly and starts entertaining him with a dance. She is interrupted by bugles that sound the retreat and make it clear that J osc must at once return to the barracks. Throwing a tantrum, Carmen refuses to listen to J osc's explanations. He protests his passion by showing her that he kept the flower she threw at him. But she insists that if he loved her he would follow her into the mountains. Jose refuses to dese rt his duty, but when Zuniga returns to see Carmen and orders him to leave, Jose disoheys. The two men are about to fi ght when the gypsies rush in and disarm the amorous captain. Don Jose realizes that he has no alternative but to throw in his lot with Carmen and her gypsy friends. ACT 1II It is early dawn in the mountain retreat used hy the gypsies for the stockpiling of contraband goods. Six months have passed since Don Jose's desertion from the army and Carmen is beginning to tire of him. After the smugglers carry in the merchandise, Dancairo bids them rest whil e he and Remendado go to reconnoiter the approaches to Seville. Frasquita and Mercedes pass the time by reading their fortunes, but when Carmen tries her luck, the cards keep on foretelling her nothing but tragedy and death. Dancairo returns, orders Jose to remain behind as a lookout, and tells the rest of the gang to proceed to Seville with part of the loot. After a while, Micaela enters in search of Don Jose, but when she notices that he is about to fire his rifle, she becomes terrified and hides behind a pile of bales. The man at whom Jose was firing is none other than Escamillo who is looking fo r Carmen. He and the jealous Jose soon come to blows, but their fight is stopped by the gypsies who return, attracted by the noise of the gun shot. Escamillo leaves, after inviting all those present to the bullfight in Seville, and the smugglers are about to resume their journey when they discover the presence of Micaela. Learning that his mother is dying, Jose agrees to go with the girl, but warns Carmen not to imagine that she will ever be free to take another lover. ACT IV In a festive Seville square, a gay crowd gathers for the bullfight. Carmen arrives on the arm of her new flame , Escamillo, and they are both loudly acclaimed by Escamillo's admirers. After he goes off to the contest, she bravely confronts her former lover who is lurking nearby. Though wretched and dishonored, Don J osc pleads with her to return to him, but her heart is elsewhere and she refuses to submit to his threats. When shouts of victory are heard from the arena, Carmen is anxious to witness the triumph of her beloved. She pays no heed to Jose's entreaties until, maddened by her disdain for him, he plunges his knife into her heart. The Goldovsk y Grand Opera Theater 11ses 110 understudies. To insure uniformity of artistic results, singers of equal stature alternate in principal roles. STAFF FOR THE GOLDOVSKY GRAND OPERA THEATER General Manager . Edward Alley Assistant Manager Edwin Clauss Associate Conductor Frederic Popper Production Manager Aloysius Petruccelli Master Carpenter William Leming Master Electrician William Doucette Master Properties . Arthur Doucette Wardrobe Supervisor Frank Boscarino Wardrobe Assistant . Zelma Leming Costumes executed by Brooks-Van Horn Costumes, New York-Philadelphia 1968-INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS-1969 Hill Auditorium BALLET FOLKLORICO OF MEXICO. 8:30, Wednesday, February 26 RUDOLF SERKIN, Pianist 8:30, Wednesday, March 5 MOSCOW STATE SYMPHONY 8:30, Thursday, March 13 Tickets: $6.00-$5.50-$5.00-$4.00-$3.00-$2.00 Rackham Auditorium COLOGNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 8:30, Saturday, February 22 HELMUT MULLER-BRUHL, Music Director Program: Concerto Grosso in D, Op. 6, No.5 HANDEL Concerto for Trumpet in D major TORELLI Concerto for Two Violins in D minor . BACH Rondo in A major. SCHUBERT "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" MOZART Tickets: $5.00-$4 .00-$2.00 ANN ARBOR MAY FESTIVAL-April 24, 25, 26, 27, 1969 THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AT ALL CONCERTS PROGRAMS THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 8:30 EUGENE OR MANDY, Conductor. RICHARD TUCKER, Tenor, will sing arias by Mozart, Handel, Meyerbeer, and Puccini. "Classical" Sympbony (Prokofieff); "Iberia" (Debussy) and the Symphonic Poem "Pines of Rome" (Respigbi). FRIDAY, APRIL 25 , 8:30 THOR JOHNSON, Conductor. JOANNA SIMON, Mezzo- soprano, will sing Pantasilcas's aria from Bomarzo (Ginastera). HANS RICHTER-HAASER, Pianist, will perform Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op. 11 (Chopin). UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION performs Psalm 150, Op. 5 (Ginastera) and the choral work "Fern Hill" by John Corigliano, with Joanna Simon. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 8:30 EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor. All orchestral program: Overture to Die Meistersinger (Wagner); Symphony No.3 (Charles Ives) ; and Symphony No.1 (Mahler). SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2:30 THOR JOHNSON, Conductor. UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION performs Schubert's Mass in A-flat, with soloists: MARIA STADER, Soprano; JOANNA SIMON, Mezzo-soprano; JOHN McCOLLUM, Tenor; WILLIS PATTERSON, Bass. ZARA NELSOVA, Cellist, performs the Elgar Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra. SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 8:30 EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor. REGINE CRESPIN, Soprano, will sing "Scheherazade" (Ravel); and the aria, "Ah Perfido," Op. 65 (Beethoven). Symphony No. 31 in D major-"Paris" (Mozart), and "La Mer" (Debussy). Serie s Tickets : $30.00-$25.00-$20.00-$15.00-$10.00 RETURNED TICKETS have been gratefully received by the Musical Society for resale-this season already in the amount of $964-to help reduce the annual deficit. Subscribers who find they cannot attend a performance for which tbey hold tickets are encouraged to return their tickets (or phone in locations at 665-3717), to allow resale. Receipts for full value of tickets are provided for tax deductions. UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gail W. Rector, President James R. Breakey, Jr. Paul G. Kauper Roscoe O. Bonisteel, Vice-President Douglas D. Crary Wilbur K. Pierpont Erich A. Walter, Secretary Robben W. Fleming Daniel H. Schurz E. Thurston Thieme, Treasurer Harlan Hatcher Stephen H.
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